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Old 04-19-2008, 02:32 PM   #1
LuciusHunt
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delete lines with sed


i have to check the first 30 lines of a file with sed and to delete those lines which contain a specific word or phrase.

sed -i '/specword/d' filename

this deletes all the lines in a file, but i want to check only the first 30.
how should i do this?


thanks a lot !
 
Old 04-19-2008, 02:40 PM   #2
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Hi,

Try this:

sed '1,30{/specword/d}' infile

Hope this helps.
 
  


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